Gale A. Yee

Gale A. Yee (born 1949) is a Chinese American scholar of the Hebrew Bible. Her primary emphases are postcolonial criticism, ideological criticism, and cultural criticism. She applies feminist frameworks to biblical texts. She has written frequently on biblical interpretation from an Asian-American perspective.

Early life and education

Yee was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 9, 1949. She attended the Academy of Our Lady High School, graduating in 1967.[1]

She earned a B.A. in English Literature in 1973 and an M.A. in the New Testament in 1975, both at Loyola University of Chicago. She completed her PhD in 1985 in the Old Testament at the University of St. Michael's College in the Toronto School of Theology.[1]

Career

In 1987, Yee published her dissertation as Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redactional Critical Investigation with Scholars Press (Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 102).[2]

From 1998 until 2017, she was the Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School. From 1984-1998, she served as Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN). She is the former general editor of Semeia Studies. She and Athalya Brenner have worked together to edit commentaries in the Texts@Contexts series for Fortress Press.

On November 19, 2017, Yee was elected as Vice-President of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2018, leading to the position as President of the SBL in 2019. She will deliver her Presidential Address at the SBL Annual Meeting in 2019 in San Diego, CA.

She has donated her papers (1966-2014) to the Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) at Union Theological Seminary in New York.[1]

Honors

Yee was honored as a qianbei ("respected elder") at the 2014 International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars,[3] received the Graduate Theological Foundation's Krister Stendahl Medal in 2015,[4] and received the Society of Biblical Literature's "Status of Women in the Profession Committee Mentor Award" in 2016.[5]

Gale A. Yee is president-elect of the Society of Biblical Literature beginning January 2018.

Publications

  • Yee, Gale A. (1987). Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redaction Critical Investigation. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. ISBN 978-1-55540-091-0.
  • Yee, Gale A. (1995). Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-8006-2745-4.
  • Yee, Gale A. (2003). Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-4514-0822-5.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship (January 2006). "Finding Aid for Gale A. Yee Papers, 1966-2014" (PDF). The Burke Library, Columbia University Libraries.
  2. ↑ Yee, Gale A. (1987). Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redaction Critical Investigation. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. ISBN 978-1-55540-091-0.
  3. ↑ Episcopal Divinity School. "International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars Honors EDS Professor Gale Yee".
  4. ↑ Episcopal Divinity School. "Dr. Gale A. Yee Announced as Recipient of the 2015 Krister Stendahl Medal by the Graduate Theological Foundation".
  5. ↑ "Status of Women in the Profession Outstanding Service in Mentoring Awards". Society of Biblical Literature. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
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